Tray and method of making same



Sept. 25, 1923. 1,685,116

, A. BARCHOFF TRAY AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME Fil ed Oct. 28, 1924 F1 gl fiVENTOR ATTORNEY;

Patented 25, 1928.

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Application filed October 28, 1924. Serial No. 746,274

' The present invention relates generally to trays, plates, platters or the like, which are to have supporting feet, such as ash-trays, bread-trays, cake-plates, sandwich-trays,

n meat-platters or other similar articles. As

anexample of the embodiment of my invention in one form, and the proper method of applying it, a meatatter of a, well ,and tree configuration in the, ase and having supporting feet will be used. Heretofore the mann facture of meat-platters, either with or without supporting feet,'has been a 1on expensive process, and particularly so if supporting feet were desired, as these had to e made separately. After making the feet 1t was necessary to secure them to the platter separately, either by soldering (as was usually done) or by riveting or in some other manner. Supporting feet are very desirable as 0 they raise the body of the hot tray, thus protecting the surface of the furniture, and pre venting the table-cloth, doilies, etc. from sticking to and marking the furniture, as well as adding grace and symmetry to the ar- 5 ticle, in addition to giving greater convenience in handling by permitting the fingers to be readily slipped under in picking up the tra (d ne of the objects of my invention is to P provide a simple and cheap method by which a meat-platter employing the well and tree configuration, for example, maybe made, so

that a platter or tray so produced will not only be simple and inexpensive to produce, but will be neat, graceful, and attractive in appearance. I

Another object is to provide a tray or platter which has supporting feet integral with the main body, thus eliminating the possibility of the feet being knocked off in use, or melting off if the platter should be left inadvertently on the hot stove or other hot surface. Furthermore these integral supporting feet are provided with practically no increase in the cost of producing the article. I y A further object is to provide a meat-platter which readily adapts itself to quantity production, with consequent lower unit cost, as the processes of manufacture are very simple step-by-step ones, not requiring special skilled labor. I

A further object is the production of'a tray of the character described herein, which will be simple in construction, cheap to manufacture, neat and attractive in appearance. With these and other objects in view, to be tion or stroke of a pair of forming dies (not more fully set forth hereinafter, the invention consists in the novel construction, which will be exemplified in the construction here- 1n described in the following specification no and illustrated in the accompanying drawings. The invention will first be described in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein similar reference characters are used on to designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, and morespe'cifically defined and indicated in the appended claim.

Attention is directed to the drawings in which Fig. 1 is a plan View of my improved tray formed in the original sheet or blank;

Fig. 2 isa central sectional elevation, taken on the line 22, Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows; v

Fig. 3 is a detailed view showing a step in the manufacture;

Fig. 4 is a detailed view showing another, step; and

Fig. 5 is a detailed view on line 5-5 of Fig. 1 showing a portion of the completed tray with an integral supporting foot.

A sheet or blank of suitable material 1, brass for example, is deformed in one operashown) as shown inFig. 1. These forming dies are so patterned as to produce in one stroke the tray proper 5 (Figs. 2 to 5) as well as the gravy well 2, the gravy tree 3 and the'four deeper depressions 4 which form the supporting feet. The gravy tree may be of the construction somewhat resembling the bed of a river, in that the gravy, meat juices etc. will drain down into the well portion 2, where they maybe readily removed, as will be well understood.

The second operation is the cutting out of the contour of the formed platter along the dotted line 6, Fig. 1, by the action of suitable cutting or punching out dies, thus providing a. formed platter with a plain horizontal rim 6, Fig. 2.

The result of the third operation is illustrated. by Fig.3, in which two forming dies (not shown) in one stroke have deformed rim 6', around the entire periphery of "the, tray, into stepped-up portions 7 and 8, as well as deforming the extreme edge of the rim 6 into depending'right angled flange 9.

The fourth operation being .merely thecrimping in'of flange 9 to form the crimped rim 10 of Figs. land 5, by act-ionof crimping dies (not shown), oriany other suitable" .means, as

will be readily understood.

.The manufactured tray may now be finished of! by silver-plating, or treated in any other desiredmanner, in the usual wa If dedred, the crimped run 10 may be fille with' solder, or' other suitable filling material, in order to present a smoother, more uniformand sanitary surface; also for the same purpose sup feet'4 may be filled in up to the level of the ttom of tree 3 at that point.

By formin a tray in the manner hereinbefore descri d, I produce a tray in which the feet or supporting members are made as an integral part of the whole structure and no soldering or riveting is required to fasten the feet, as was the practice heretofore, and there is no possibility of the feet being knocked off or melted. I wish to call attention to the fact that supporting feet 4 are so positioned as to form part of the design or configuration in the tray. Any design could be utilized and the same, result accomplished so that the depressions 4 will act as the support members or feet.

In accordance with the provisions of the patent statutes, I have described my invention together with the construction which I now consider to represent the best embodiao ment thereof, but I desireit understood that my invention is not confined to the particular form shownand described, the same being merely illustrative, and that the invention can be carried out'in other ways without departing from the spirit of my mvention, and, therefore, I claim broadly the right to em-. plo all equivalent instrumentalitles co 'wi n the scope of theappended claims, an by means of which objects of'my invention are attained, and new=results accomplished,

vas herein set forth,-as it is obvious that the garticular embodiments herein shown and escribed are only some of many that can be employed to attain these objects and accomplish these results. Y

This specification signed this 18th day of October, 1924.

ABRAHAM BABCHOFF. 

